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Class with Miss D. gives the students at Pleasant Hill Elementary the confidence they need to move on to their new school. The third-graders are sad that this will be their last year at Pleasant Hill Elementary before their school is torn down. Poems narrated in the voices of five different students—Dawn, Kayla, Jonathan, Anthony, and Carmen—relate the events of their last year together with their teacher, Miss D. The year is busy as the students, each facing a challenge at home, prepare to put on a play, take field trips to a local farm, and do experiments in the science lab. They are studying the Civil War and key figures in the civil rights movement. When the students go to a play in a real theatre, they are kicked out for no good reason. Miss D. helps the students write letters to the theater manager, demanding to know why they weren't allowed to see the play. Is it because their skin is black?

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Writing in the style of Walter Dean Myers’ Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices (2004), though for a much younger audience, Cheng introduces five students in Miss D.’s third grade, who speak in alternating voices. They are sad that their inner-city Cincinnati school is being demolished; they want to stay there with their beloved teacher. She is white, and they know from her history lessons that in the past they could not have sat together on the bus. Langston Hughes’ poetry makes them think of their very different dreams and lives: Dawn is proud that her mom is going to school to become a nurse; Jonathan wants to leave the homeless shelter where he lives; Carmen longs for the lead in the school play; Antony doesn’t want to be called a nerd. At the center of the book, uniting the students, is a racist incident; the whole class is made to leave a local theater. The fast, immediate free verse makes this great for readers’ theater. Black-and-white woodcuts done by the author provide futher commentary on the world in which the kids live. Grades 2-5. --Hazel Rochman